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Britain on Thursday ordered three Czechoslovak diplomats to leave the country within two weeks for "engaging in activities incompatible with their status," a diplomatic euphemism for spying. The order was the latest in a series of diplomatic expulsions over the past month in an apparent government crackdown following increased scrutiny of foreign missions. A Foreign Office spokesman said Czechoslovak Ambassador Jan Fidler was summoned to the Foreign Office and told that an air attache, Maj.

Britain on Thursday ordered three Czechoslovak diplomats to leave the country within two weeks for "engaging in activities incompatible with their status," a diplomatic euphemism for spying. The order was the latest in a series of diplomatic expulsions over the past month in an apparent government crackdown following increased scrutiny of foreign missions. A Foreign Office spokesman said Czechoslovak Ambassador Jan Fidler was summoned to the Foreign Office and told that an air attache, Maj.